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Unlock your creativity with The Design Sketchbook’s Sketching Tutorials. Learn fast, confident product design sketching from basics to advanced techniques. Master shapes, perspective, shading, and textures to bring your ideas to life with clear, expressive, and professional sketches. Perfect for all skill levels.
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Shoe drawing is difficult at the start for anyone. To make it easy, we start by learning how to draw a shoe from the side view. If you are wondering how to draw shoes, you might face at least one of these issues: You don’t know how to start. The shoe you draw has a bad proportion (both in perspective and side view). You have difficulty to...
HOW TO DRAW A SPHERE NOTE: We saw previously how to draw a circle in perspective. (Which is represented by an ellipse drawing.) Sphere drawing Today’s tutorial, we see how to draw a sphere in a simple way using the XYZ axis. Before starting, make sure you have been through the lesson about the ghost drawing and circles. You can find more...
To make your sketch pop out from the background, it’s essential to add a Cast shadow. The “cast shadow” projects the shadow of an object on a surface (basically the ground surface). I basically use 2 methods at drawing the cast shadow: the Parallel source of light (Example: The sun) the Diverging source of light (Example: A torch light)...
the Designer Starter Kit es la guía perfecta para aprender sketching de diseño desde cero. Con consejos claros y técnicas paso a paso, este eBook en español te inspira a mejorar tus habilidades de dibujo industrial. Regístrate y recibe la guía que cambiará tu manera de diseñar. ¡No te lo pierdas!
We all know about Brainstorming.I was thinking about using this creative drawing session with the “Doodle-Storm” technique.Try, and send me yours by email at choutac@thedesignsketchbook.com! It’s a real pleasure to get absorbed by the “Doodle-Storm” session – Drawing some free form of an Earphone.I didn’t give myself a time limit (I had the whole...
Today, a tutorial on How to draw arrows using 1 and 2-point perspective. With practice, you will be able to take some shortcuts and draw arrows without tracing the whole set of: Horizon line, vanishing points and converging lines. Take this video as a basic exercise that will train you to draw in 3D space. Let me know your comments, and see you...
When you are a beginner and start sketching an object, you feel lost with Perspective.There is a high chance your converging lines get clumsy. To plan them well, you have to take care of multiple parameters at the same time: Horizon lineVanishing pointsConverging lines.And of course, the design of your product! Don’t worry, when you learn it...
In product Design we like to use arrows to express a movement, a path, an acceleration. It’s not only made to designate certain elements of a product. Today, I will show you how to decompose an arrow in simple shapes, and making sure to draw it with a good proportion and symmetry. The trick is super simple. But you need to know it, for later being...
